Australia: Jihad-Linked Group Teaches Rejection of National Anthem, Diversity and Tolerance in Conference

A community hall conference held in Sydney, Australia by Hizb ut-Tahrir, a well known jihadist organization which has been “campaigning for Sharia law”, discouraged children from singing the national anthem and refused to condemn the Islamic State. The event was replete with: gender segregation, the declaration that the national anthem was oppressive to Muslims, support for the Islamic State, the promotion of amputations for punishments and a full rebuke of diversity, multiculturalism and tolerance.

While all this might sounding shocking to most Westerners, it is not shocking in the least to those who understand that normative Islam is supremacist in doctrine and promotes the doctrine of a world divided in two, between the House of War (Dar al Harb) and the House of Islam (Dar al Islam), where infidel countries are deemed to be ‘houses of war’ that must be brought under subjugation to Islam. Normative Islam’s decrees are immutable and its laws are an official closed corpus.

Western constitutions and laws are regarded in Islam as inferior to the Islamic sharia; and the doctrine of the Islamic State–although practiced more crudely–is the same Salafi doctrine that governs Saudi Arabia and many Islamic countries. The mystery of this news only lies in the question of why it was allowed to take place in Australia in the first place. The conference represented an open declaration of war against Australia (and the West), and among other things, it violated the principles of equality and human rights under Western constitutions.

“‘We’ve bought into the lie that is tolerance and diversity’: Inside radical Muslim group Hizb ut-Tahrir’s Sydney conference – where gender segregated members heard children should not sing the national anthem”, by Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail, April 27, 2019:

A radical Muslim group held a conference on Saturday afternoon discouraging members and their children from singing the Australian national anthem – while refusing to condemn ISIS.

Global Islamist political group Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is campaigning for Sharia law, hired a community hall at Campsie, in Sydney’s south-west, for the event.

Yellow taped lines were placed on the carpet segregating men at the front from women at the back, with Daily Mail Australia witnessing ushers directing men to sit at the front of the auditorium.

This was despite a 2016 New South Wales Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruling which found Hizb ut-Tahrir’s gender segregation policies at public events were a form of unlawful sex discrimination.

After taking a seat Daily Mail Australia was asked to leave the Orion Function Centre as about 300 Muslim men, women – all wearing either hijabs or niqabs – and children were arriving.

Asked why the media wasn’t allowed at the four-hour ‘Unapologetically Muslim’ forum, this reporter was informed it was an ‘Islamic conference’ and complied with directions to leave.

Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia live streamed the event on Facebook, featuring high school English teacher Sufyan Badar on stage interviewing Wassim Doureihi.

Mr Doureihi told the audience he discouraged his children from singing Advance Australia Fair at school.

‘My kids go to a public school and every so often, I think it’s once or twice a year, whatever it is, they play the national anthem,’ he said.

‘Personally, out of respect, my kids will stand up but they won’t sing.’

Mr Doureihi, a leader of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia, declared the national anthem was oppressive to Muslims.

‘Should we stand up and sing along? Or should we take a position that expresses our resistance against what the national anthem represents? It’s colonialism,’ he said.

‘As Muslims we are under the spotlight and as Muslims we have to take positions on things that are not going to be comfortable.’

In another part of the conversation, Mr Doureihi laughed when Mr Badar asked him if ISIS should be condemned.

On Saturday night, he likened denouncing the Islamic State terror group to being asked to disown paedophilia.

‘Imagine someone comes into the room and looks at us both. Looks at us both and says these two are a bunch of paedophiles,’ he said.

‘And they come up on stage and they say, “Do you condemn paedophilia?”

‘Would I actually respect that question and give a yes or a no? Why would I do that?

‘Why would I humiliate myself and accept to be framed in this way?’

In another part of the discussion, Mr Doureihi condemned an elderly white, pro-refugee male customer at his shop who had described Sharia law Hudud punishments as ‘barbaric’, which can involve the amputation of a hand for stealing.

‘We’ve probably bought into the lie that is tolerance, diversity and multiculturalism,’ he said.

‘We’re sold the rhetoric of acceptance of diversity, and different people’s and different opinions and different religions but not realising the reality of what that entails….

“Populist” Hungary donates millions to help foreign persecuted Christians and victims of Jihad.

“The Hungarian government has pledged an initial 9 million forints (roughly $31,000 U.S.) in emergency aid to the survivors of the recent attacks on Christians and Christian churches in Sri Lanka” and Hungary is considering an even larger donation. That’s in addition to millions spent on other aid projects to help persecuted Christians and victims of jihad.

Hungary has been presented in the media as “far right” and “racist”for seeking to maintain the country’s Christian identity–built on peace and free of jihad attacks and Islamic supremacist incursions and doctrines which erode Judea-Christian democracies. There is no tolerance, freedom and human rights in sharia law, which is barbarous as reflected across Islamic states, and now in areas of the West where it’s proponents have settled in large numbers, thanks to reckless immigration policy.

“The Hungary Helps Agency” has now been set up to aid persecuted Christians who have been mostly abandoned by Western countries and even deceived about the jihad by their own denominations at the highest levels. The Catholic archbishop of Sri Lanka met with purveyors of the Islamic Jihad — ambassadors from the worst countries which fund and support jihad and persecution — and believed them when they told him that the Sri Lankan attacks had nothing to do with Islam.

In Hungary, there is also the Hungary Helps initiative which is “providing nearly $1.7 million to a project aimed at supporting [Christian] hospitals in Syria”, which offers medical care to all faiths.

Hungary is also helping the persecuted Christian Copts in Egypt, Kurds, Christians savagely persecuted by Boko Harem and has donated nearly 1.7 million to renovate Churches in Lebanon.

Kudos to Hungary – the so-called “racist” state —for protecting its country from Islamization while aiding visible minority Christians and Kurds who are suffering under the jihad and daily persecution by Islamic supremacists.

The Hungarian government has pledged an initial 9 million forints (roughly $31,000 U.S.) in emergency aid to the survivors of the recent attacks on Christians and Christian churches in Sri Lanka.

“We’re considering a larger donation to the Christian churches targeted by these horrific acts of terror,” tweeted Tristan Azbej, deputy secretary of state for the assistance to persecuted Christians.

Tuned into the alarming numbers that, on average, 345 Christians are killed every month throughout the world, Hungary has taken a leadership role in establishing the State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and Hungary Helps, “unique in the Western World.”

During a press conference in Budapest on April 16, Azbej announced the establishment of “The Hungary Helps Agency.”

“The task of the new agency, which will be operating within the framework of the State Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians and the Realization of the Hungary Helps Program, will be to coordinate programs to help persecuted Christians,” Azbej said.

The Hungary Helps initiative is providing nearly $1.7 million to a project aimed at supporting hospitals in Syria. Working alongside the AVSI Foundation in partnership with the Gemelli Foundation and the pontifical charity branch “Cor Unum,” Hungary Helps supports the three Catholic hospitals in Syria (St. Louis Hospital in Aleppo, a French hospital and an Italian hospital, both in Damascus) which offer free medical care to the poor regardless of religious affiliation.

Azbej also told the press that the Hungarian government is “running programs in five Middle Eastern and two sub-Saharan countries” with “one of the most extensive programs[being] the reconstruction of the city of Tel Askuf in Northern Iraq.”

In 2014, several hundred Christian families fled from Tel Askuf and many of the settlement’s buildings were damaged or destroyed as a result of ISIS attacks. Azbej reported to the press that “the 580 million-forint donation provided by the Hungary government was enough to enable the Chaldean Catholic Church to rebuild the city, allowing families to return home” — in an albeit currently tenuous situation.

Hungary Helps and the Secretariat for the Aid of Persecuted Christians are also assisting Coptic Christians in Egypt, Christians in northeast Nigeria who have been savaged by Boko Haram groups…

Once again, unsuspecting Christians gathered in churches with their families to celebrate Easter Sunday – one of the most sacred holidays in the Christian faith – have been ruthlessly killed by Islamic jihadists.

There is no other way to describe it but true evil.

Eight bomb blasts detonated by Islamist suicide bombers ripped through three Christian churches and three major hotels, reportedly leaving a death toll of nearly300 victims, including 4 Americans so far, with many missing persons still unaccounted for.

A series of blasts tore through churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter morning, killing at least 290 people and wounding more than 400 in coordinated attacks on tourists and the country’s minority Christian community.

At least eight explosions, most blamed on suicide bombers, took place across the country. Restaurants and houses of worship that moments earlier were hosting holiday feasts and joyful services were plunged into chaos, filled with rubble, broken furniture, shards of glass and the wounded and dead.

An Australian survivor described one of the scenes as “absolute carnage” and said “There were people screaming and dead bodies all around.” Other witness reports of the massacre and the chaos left by the bombers have been too heartbreaking and disturbing to repeat.

An older man reported that he and his wife only survived because the church was too full when they arrived, so they chose to go to another location. But he says family members claim to have seen the suspected bomber coolly patting children on the head as he passed them on his way inside the church.

Now there are reports that the Sri Lankan authorities had been warned over a week before about potential attacks on churches, but no action was taken, possibly due to internal political skirmishes.

Ten days before the bombings, a top Sri Lankan police official warned the security services that a radical Islamist group was planning suicide attacks against churches, but no action was taken against the group. It was unclear what other precautions, if any, the security agencies had taken in response to the threat warnings.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Sunday that neither he nor his cabinet ministers had been informed of the warning, highlighting the power struggle between him and President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the defense minister.

Sadly, deadly violence against Christians celebrating the Easter holiday is not a new occurrence. Just a year ago, we told you how a family in Pakistan was gunned down by jihadist assassins on motorcycles, leaving a terrified 12-year-old girl as the lone survivor.

That massacre came just two years after a suicide bomber entered a Pakistan park where groups of Christian families had gathered to celebrate Easter and murdered at least 72 Christians – including 17 innocent children.

And two years ago, in a horrific attack similar to this latest violence, we reported that ISIS bombers struck Egyptian churches during Palm Sunday services, killing 29 Christians and wounding 69 more.

We’ve continually reported an escalation of these deadly jihadist attacks on Christians for years. Yet the local governments seem unable or unwilling to stop the violent persecution. Now the politically correct left and mainstream media have been left with no choice but to admit we were right. This bloodthirsty persecution has to stop immediately.

The ACLJ just submitted evidence to the U.N. regarding these past Easter attacks, warning “Christians are routinely the target of Islamic extremists, and it is not uncommon for these attacks to occur at places of worship during major Christian religious holidays, such as Christmas and Easter where Christians . . . gather to worship.”

The international community has to stand up and say this must end. Christians must be protected and allowed to live in peace like every other religious group. The vile terrorists who orchestrated these attacks, and others like them, must be tracked down, even to the ends of the earth, and brought to justice.

Our prayers go out to the victims and their families as we are all one in the body of Christ. That is why we must also take action to keep this sort of senseless tragedy from being repeated, yet again.

UPDATE 4.25.19: The death toll has since been revised to 253 victims and over 500 wounded. As we reported, ISIS has officially taken responsibility for the deadly attacks. An official statement from Amaq, the Islamic State’s news agency, called the suicide bombers “fighters with the Islamic State” and warned “Cross Worshipers.” The jihadist militia calledEaster a “blasphemous holiday.” This latest atrocity verifies ISIS intends to spread its campaign of genocide against Christians across the globe.

In the next few weeks, we’re filing new submissions at the U.N. in defense of persecuted Christians. But we can’t go to the U.N., mobilize our global offices, and engage world leaders to protect Christians living in immediate danger without you. Take action with us.

TWITTER GETS IT RIGHT FOR A CHANGE: Refuses Congressmuslim Ilhan Omar’s Demand to Remove President Trump’s Tweet Condemning Her Mockery of 9/11 Victims

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) didn’t get her way after Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey called her to let her know that the company would NOT remove a tweet from President Trump featuring a video of her casually dismissing the 9/11 terrorist attack as “some people did something.”

ZeroHedge When the Somali-born Muslim Rep. pressed Dorsey on why the tweet wasn’t removed, Dorsey said that Trump’s tweet didn’t violate the company rules, according to the Washington Post.

Dorsey also pointed to the fact that the tweet and video already had been viewed and shared far beyond the site, one of the sources said. But the Twitter executive did tell Omar that the tech giant needed to do a better job generally in removing hate and harassment from the site, according to the two people familiar with the call. –Washington Post

100%FedUp When Omar was asked about her 9-11 remarks at a CAIR fundraiser, and if she understood how calling Islamic terrorists on 9-11, “some people who did something,” upset people? Instead of apologizing for the words she used to describe the 9-11 terror attack, Omar relied on her victim status, saying, “I think that there is particular bias and a particular lens that people sort of um, critique the words I use. And that is not a bias or a lens that I can get rid of with one answer or one conversation.”

Could War Between Israel and Iran Begin in the Middle East?

If Iran uses its forces and fighters (which include Afghani and Pakistani forces) to launch an attack near the Israeli-Syrian border, it is possible that a war between Tel Aviv and Tehran could to occur sooner rather than later.

The number of non-Iranian mercenaries are very large. The number of Afghanis ranges between fifteen and twenty thousand fighters. Pakistani fighters between five and ten thousand fighters, in addition to thousands of Iraqis and Syrians. The number of fighters in the Iran Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, which is considered a terrorist group, has between eight and ten thousand fighters, in addition to five or six thousand soldiers in the Iranian regular army, according to estimates of 2016.

In view of what has happened in 2018, the direct conflict between Israel and Iran is not only looming but it is already happening, and began with the penetration of an Iranian drone aircraft into Israeli airspace, and the dropping of Syrian artillery on an Israeli F-16 fighter after it launched attacks on Syrian and Iranian positions on the border between the two countries.

Iran hosts Al Qaeda terrorists in Tehran and also funds them. This is nothing new for a country which is considered as the main supporter for terrorism worldwide. Even the 9/11 attacks were facilitated by the planning of Iran in cooperation with Al-Qaeda terrorists.

We have to be careful about the increase of Iran’s influence in Syria and its military expansion on the border between the two countries. This could sooner or later cause a major conflict between the Israelis and Iranians.

In addition to the above-mentioned concerns, tensions are due to other factors as well: the efforts of Hezbollah and Syria – with the help of Iran – to produce high-precision missiles in Lebanon and Syria that could paralyze Israel’s vital infrastructure and make life intolerable, and Iran’s efforts to turn Syria into a starting point for operations against Israel and a platform to highlight the power of the Levant on the other. But as Iran pursues an anti-status agenda that has often caused a conflict with Israel and the United States, it has shown that it is seeking to avoid conventional wars and the heavy losses of its forces. Instead, it relies on the implementation of proxy operations, terrorism and influential but non-lethal activities. However, they are also willing to venture into high-risk activities involving potential escalation.

US President Donald Trump has taken an anti-Iranian position since he ran for president and vowed to end the nuclear deal reached by the Obama administration with the Islamic Republic. Trump accused Tehran of destabilizing the region shortly after he took office and stressed the need to impose further sanctions on it’s nuclear and ballistic programs.

Israel is not the only country threatened by Iran, but Iran’s ballistic program may enable it to target other areas in the region, noting that Tehran now has the largest reservoir of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.

If war happens, it will involve Israel and the Arab states (mainly Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Jordan) against Iran to fight the Iranian threat and its expansion while the Iranian proxies – terrorist militias — and Hezbollah will side with Iran

At the “She the People” presidential forum in Houston, Cory Booker defended Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s “anti-Semitic comments about AIPAC,” stating that “the criticisms of Congresswoman Omar, what Donald Trump has been saying about her is reprehensible, it is trafficking in Islamophobia.”

“Islamophobia” is nothing more than a buzzword used to beat down critics. It has become the fastest way to silence real dialogue and discussion about the global jihad. If you criticize hateful and violent Islamic doctrine, which jihadis refer to as their justification for murder and myriad other abuses and atrocities, you’re branded “Islamophobic” and “racist,” even though most of these atrocities are committed against visible minorities and women — a fact Democrats do not care about even amid their manipulation of racism and sexism charges to court votes.

Those who have called out the anti-Semitic words of Muslim Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and have shed light on her alliance with Hamas-linked CAIR stand accused by Booker of “trafficking in Islamophobia.” Identity politics is in full swing among Democrats. It’s their primary playing card, and they will continue to play it even if it means aiding the jihad by defending those who ally with Muslim Brotherhood interests and maintaining their own alliance with degenerates like Louis Farrakhan. Farrakhan sent a message to Omar about her disingenuous apology for her anti-Semitic comment: “Sweetheart, don’t do that….Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have nothing to apologize for.” Booker agrees.

“Booker Defends Omar: Criticism of Her Is ‘Reprehensible,’ ‘Trafficking in Islamophobia,’” by Pam Key, Breitbart, April 24, 2019:

The moderator asked, “My question is about Ilhan Omar. She was recently critical of the outside influence of AIPAC in determining U.S. foreign policy, including funding of Israel. Subsequently, she has received condemnation from the President and members of her own party, as well as death threats. What will you do as president to protect the right of courageous women of color to criticize U.S. policy even when directed at allies?”

Booker answered, “Thank you for your question. The criticisms of Congresswoman Omar, what Donald Trump has been saying about her is reprehensible, it is trafficking in Islamophobia,

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llhan Omar – Traitor?

UTTAll currently available evidence reveals Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is conspiring with hostile foreign powers against the United States and its interests to overthrow the U.S. government in violation of federal law and the oath she took to protect and defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

In addition to Ilhan Omar’s 2013 arrest and her marriage to her brother, as well as her public comments revealing her hatred for Jews and indifference about the 9/11/01 attacks on America by Islamic jihadists, Omar’s seditious and treasonous actions are what causes the gravest concern to Understanding the Threat (UTT), and should be grave concerns to the American people.

Ilhan Omar works closely with the leader of Hamas in the United States doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Nihad Awad.

Hamas was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1995 by the U.S. government.

UTT assesses Nihad Awad is also the General Masul or leader of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), formed in 2014, is the largest conglomerate of Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States.

Over the last couple of years, the USCMO has been turning the reigns of power of the Islamic Movement in the U.S. over to the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood, specifically to the likely Caliph of the soon-to-be declared Islamic Caliphate, President Erdogan of Turkey.

In the Islamic world, Erdogan is already being called the “Sultan” and the “President of the Ummah (the global muslim community).”

Now, photos have surfaced of Ilhan Omar meeting with President Erdogan in New York city in 2017 during the same time senior U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leadership via the USCMO was also meeting with the probable next caliph, Erdogan.

State Legislator (MN) Ilhan Omar meets with Turkish President and likely future Caliph Erodogan in New York City in 2017.

Senior leaders of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood under the banner of the USCMO meet with Turkish President Erdogan in New York City in 2017.(Photo courtesy of Clare Lopez, Center for Security Policy)

Hamas/CAIR, the USCMO, and Erdogan are all working to establish an Islamic State under sharia. Ilhan Omar is a sharia adherent muslim with a track record of supporting ISIS terrorists, and working against the best interests of America, all while holding public office.

Ilhan Omar’s presence in the middle of strategic planning meetings among hostile entities indicates her elevated role in the coming establishment of the caliphate and the war the Islamic Counter-State will wage in the United States.

About JGJohn Guandolo is a US Naval Academy graduate, served as an Infantry/Reconnaissance officer in the United States Marines and is a combat veteran, served as a Special Agent in the FBI from 1996-2008, and was recruited out of the FBI by the Department of Defense to conduct strategic analysis of the Islamic threat. He is the President and Founder of Understanding the Threat (UTT).

All currently available evidence reveals Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is conspiring with hostile foreign powers against the United States and its interests to overthrow the U.S. government in violation of federal law and the oath she took to protect and defend the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

In addition to Ilhan Omar’s 2013 arrest and her marriage to her brother, as well as her public comments revealing her hatred for Jews and indifference about the 9/11/01 attacks on America by Islamic jihadists, Omar’s seditious and treasonous actions are what causes the gravest concern to Understanding the Threat (UTT), and should be grave concerns to the American people.

Ilhan Omar works closely with the leader of Hamas in the United States doing business as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) – Nihad Awad.

Hamas was designated a Foreign Terrorist Organization in 1995 by the U.S. government.

UTT assesses Nihad Awad is also the General Masul or leader of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood.

The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), formed in 2014, is the largest conglomerate of Muslim Brotherhood organizations in the United States.

Over the last couple of years, the USCMO has been turning the reigns of power of the Islamic Movement in the U.S. over to the Turkish Muslim Brotherhood, specifically to the likely Caliph of the soon-to-be declared Islamic Caliphate, President Erdogan of Turkey.

In the Islamic world, Erdogan is already being called the “Sultan” and the “President of the Ummah (the global muslim community).”

Now, photos have surfaced of Ilhan Omar meeting with President Erdogan in New York city in 2017 during the same time senior U.S. Muslim Brotherhood leadership via the USCMO was also meeting with the probable next caliph, Erdogan.

State Legislator (MN) Ilhan Omar meets with Turkish President and likely future Caliph Erodogan in New York City in 2017.Senior leaders of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood under the banner of the USCMO meet with Turkish President Erdogan in New York City in 2017.(Photo courtesy of Clare Lopez, Center for Security Policy)

Hamas/CAIR, the USCMO, and Erdogan are all working to establish an Islamic State under sharia. Ilhan Omar is a sharia adherent muslim with a track record of supporting ISIS terrorists, and working against the best interests of America, all while holding public office.

Ilhan Omar’s presence in the middle of strategic planning meetings among hostile entities indicates her elevated role in the coming establishment of the caliphate and the war the Islamic Counter-State will wage in the United States.

About JGJohn Guandolo is a US Naval Academy graduate, served as an Infantry/Reconnaissance officer in the United States Marines and is a combat veteran, served as a Special Agent in the FBI from 1996-2008, and was recruited out of the FBI by the Department of Defense to conduct strategic analysis of the Islamic threat. He is the President and Founder of Understanding the Threat (UTT).

There are security barriers all over the world. There are only two places where they cannot be constructed, because they would be immoral and evil: on the US/Mexico border, and in Judea and Samaria (aka the West Bank).

“Pakistan has decided to fence border with Iran, announces Shah Mahmood Qureshi,” by Aisha Mahmood, Business Recorder, April 20, 2019:

Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi announced on Saturday that Pakistan has decided to fence its border with Iran to strengthen the border security and prevent terrorist activities from happening.

Addressing a press conference on Saturday, the minister said that he has confirmed news the recent killing of 14 persons in Ormara was the work of Baloch terrorists. He said actionable intelligence after investigations has been shared with Iranian authorities.

The foreign minister continued that he also talked to his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif to raise the issue. He said he had conveyed the anger and sorrow of Pakistanis to him and their expectations from Iran….

Muslims Who Claimed to be Above Australian Law Fined by Non-Muslim Judge Who Assures Them He Follows Qur’an

“The Holy Koran considers justice a supreme virtue, and I assure the defendants that this court pursues that virtue in every case it deals with, just as the Holy Koran requires of its adherents,” Justice Terence Sheahan told Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali.

He could have just said, “In Australia, Australian law applies to everyone.”

Instead, he engaged in this shameless Islamopandering, attempting to convince them that the Qur’an teaches what he says it does, not what they say it does. This is as foolish as the many judges who lecture jihadi defendants about how Islam teaches peace. Instead of pontificating about a book he has almost certainly not read or studied, Sheahan and his fellow judges should be pondering the implications of statements such as the one Mustapha Kara-Ali made upon leaving the court: “Our religion is prime, the cross belongs in the dustbin of history.” They should be pondering what that means for Australia’s future, and trying to determine how many Muslims in Australia agree with the Kara-Alis. But they won’t.

“Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali charged with contempt of court for clearing land,” by Benedict Brook, News.com.au, April 18, 2019 (thanks to Natalie):

Two Muslim brothers who claim Australian law does not apply to them have been fined $100,000 for contempt of court.

Mustapha and Diaa Kara-Ali reportedly laughed when the judge handed down the punishment today in Sydney’s Land and Environment Court, after they were compelled to appear for felling trees on a northwest Sydney property without council permission.

The brothers had tried to argue that the Islamic organisation they ran, Diwan Al Dawla, was exempt from Australian law on religious grounds.

They failed in their bid and were fined $100,000 for what a judge called a “flagrant” breach of a court order to stop construction works to build a Muslim religious centre on their rural property in Colo.

They and their business were convicted on 12 charges of contempt of court.

A furious Mustapha Kara-Ali left the Court on Thursday saying: “Our religion is prime, the cross belongs in the dustbin of history.”

In his written judgment, Justice Terence Sheahan said the pair had ignored orders to appear in court and only turned up after being arrested. Mustapha had said attending court could lead to “hit squads” perusing him.

“The Holy Koran considers justice a supreme virtue, and I assure the defendants that this court pursues that virtue in every case it deals with, just as the Holy Koran requires of its adherents,” the judge said.

Diaa was the sole director of Southern Chariot Stud Pty Ltd, which owned the property on Sydney’s rural fringe.

The brothers began building a religious site next to the Colo River and felled trees until Hawkesbury City Council intervened mid-2018, ordering them to stop the unauthorised works.

RELIGIOUSLY UNACCEPTABLE

The brothers failed to stop construction work on the property, which eventually included four flagpoles, a boat ramp, a wall and gates. Construction work had also begun on a series of buildings.

In September, Mustapha told the council he had an issue with the “religious symbolism of court”.

Specifically, he objected to the St George Cross on both the Australian and NSW coat of arms which, he said, harked back to the Crusades, a series of medieval religious wars between Muslim and Christian forces.

“How can it be that I’m expected to be loyal to the religious symbols of another religion, because such symbols are given coercive force?” he said in a submission last year justifying why he would not attend court.

“To be present at an adjudicating court that upholds the religious symbols of the crusades is religiously unacceptable.”

He said a religious association such as Diwan Al Dawla can “choose to not comply with state laws” in matters of religious practice.

“We believe that the NSW court’s upholding of religious symbols that represent the Crusader wars of the medieval period encourages and incites religious violence against us by a group of hit squads who share the desire to uphold their own religious symbols which they consider to be official over ours,” he said.

At one point Mustapha said a severed pig’s head had been dumped outside the gates, which was proof of a “hit squad” attack….

A nudist beach? Then also a “halal beach” in The Hague. At least, if it is up to Party of the Unity Councilor Arnoud van Doorn. According to the controversial Dutch politician, Muslims feel “unpleasant with scantily clad, ugly people.”

According to Van Doorn, there is a need for a so-called “halal beach”. Muslims don’t feel at home on most beaches, he says. “Not only Muslims, but also many other residents feel uncomfortable with the appearance of very scantily dressed and often unesthetically designed beachgoers,” he writes to the city council of The Hague. “In addition, women in particular indicate that they are increasingly confronted with unwanted allusions and advances by people of the opposite sex during beach visits.”

He believes that The Hague should therefore consider whether it is possible to designate part of the beach for Muslims. After all, there is also a nudist beach for a small group of enthusiasts, so why not design a part of the beach for the Muslim community, Van Doorn argues. Halal beach resorts already exist in seaside resorts in Turkey and Indonesia, among others. On halal beaches, Muslims could enjoy the sun according to their religious regulations. For example, men and women sunbathe separately on Lombok.

Van Doorn came to the PVV (Geert Wilders’ anti-Islam party) in 2010 in the city council of The Hague and in 2013 – after his conversion – switched to the Islamic Party for Unity. In 2016 he received a work sentence for selling drugs to minors and the possession of a prohibited alarm gun….